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Jets physics in heavy ion reactions is an important new area of active research at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that paves the way for novel tests of QCD multi-parton dynamics in dense…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-22 Yuncun He , Ivan Vitev , Ben-Wei Zhang

The LHC data on jet fragmentation function and jet shapes in PbPb collisions at center-of-mass energy 2.76 TeV per nucleon pair are analyzed and interpreted in the frameworks of PYQUEN jet quenching model. A specific modification of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 I. P. Lokhtin , A. A. Alkin , A. M. Snigirev

Jet modification in heavy-ion collisions provides microscopic access to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. However, conventional approaches based on traditional global observables, such as \(R_{AA}\), capture limited information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Leonardo Lima da Silva , Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz

For jets, with great power comes great opportunity. The unprecedented center of mass energies available at the LHC open new windows on the QGP: we demonstrate that jet shape and jet cross section measurements become feasible as a new,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-20 Ivan Vitev , Simon Wicks , Ben-Wei Zhang

We study the transverse momentum distribution of hadrons within jets, where the transverse momentum is defined with respect to the standard jet axis. We consider the case where the jet substructure measurement is performed for an inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-16 Zhong-Bo Kang , Xiaohui Liu , Felix Ringer , Hongxi Xing

In high energy nuclear collisions, heavy flavor tagged jets are useful hard probes to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this talk, we present the first theoretical prediction of the $D^0$ meson radial distributions in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-23 Sa Wang , Wei Dai , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

I develop an Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to compute jet substructure observables for heavy ion collision experiments. As an illustration, I consider dijet events that accompany the formation of a weakly coupled Quark Gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Varun Vaidya

QCD jets provide one of the best avenues to extract information about the quark-gluon plasma produced in the aftermath of ultra relativistic heavy ions collisions. The structure of jets is determined by multiparticle quantum interference…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-20 João Barata , Xiaojian Du , Meijian Li , Wenyang Qian , Carlos A. Salgado

Studies of fully-reconstructed jets in heavy-ion collisions aim at extracting thermodynamical and transport properties of hot and dense QCD matter. Recently, a plethora of new jet substructure observables have been theoretically and…

Heavy-flavor jets are powerful tools to gain insight into the in-medium partonic energy-loss mechanisms and the quark-gluon plasma's (QGP) transport properties in high-energy nuclear collisions. In this work we present the first theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-30 Yao Li , Sa Wang , Ben-Wei Zhang

Fragmentation functions are one of the key components of the factorisation theorem used to calculate heavy-flavour hadron production cross sections. The non-perturbative nature of fragmentation functions necessitates that they are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-24 Antonio Palasciano

Coupled linear Boltzmann transport and hydrodynamic (CoLBT-hydro) model has been developed for simultaneous simulations of jet propagation and jet-induced medium excitation in heavy-ion collisions. Within this coupled approach, the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Wei Chen , Shanshan Cao , Tan Luo , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

We present the first calculation of the momentum sharing and angular separation distributions between the leading subjets inside a reconstructed jet in heavy ion collisions. These observables are directly sensitive to the hardest branching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Yang-Ting Chien , Ivan Vitev

Medium modification of jet fragmentation functions and parton energy loss in cold and hot matter are reviewed. The predicted nuclear modification of the jet fragmentation function agrees well with the recent HERMES data with a resultant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Xin-Nian Wang

We study the phenomenon of jet quenching utilizing quark and gluon jet substructures as independent probes of heavy ion collisions. We exploit jet and subjet features to highlight differences between quark and gluon jets in vacuum and in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-12 Yang-Ting Chien , Raghav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli

Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions probes parton energy loss in the quark--gluon plasma (QGP), but the extracted transport properties may not be universally constrained across centrality, beam energy, and observable class. In this work,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Dongguk Kim , Dongjo Kim , Jeongsu Bok , Beomkyu Kim

We present results from a new Monte Carlo simulation for jet fragmentation in QCD and SUSY QCD for large primary energies $\sqrt s$ up to $10^{16}$ GeV. In the case of SUSY QCD the simulation takes into account not only gluons and quarks as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Berezinsky , M. Kachelriess

New jet observables are defined which characterize both fractal and scale-dependent contributions to the distribution of hadrons in a jet. These infrared safe observables, named Extended Fractal Observables (EFOs), have been applied to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-10 Joe Davighi , Philip Harris

The Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is created in high energy heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This medium is transparent to electromagnetic probes but nearly opaque to colored…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-17 Christine Nattrass

Jets are collimated sprays of particles resulting from fragmentation of hard scattered partons. They are measured in different types of collisions at different energies to test perturbative Quantum Chromodynamic calculations and are used to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Michal Vajzer